UMOJA (OO MOH JAH) UNITY - To strive for, and maintain, unity in the family, community, nation and race.
KUJICHAGULIA (KOO JEE CHA GOO LEE YAH) SELF DETERMINATION - To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves and speak for ourselves instead of being defined, named, created for and spoken for by others.
UJIMA (OO JEE MAH) COLLECTIVE WORK AND RESPONSIBILITY - To build and maintain our community together and make our brothers' and sisters' problems our problems and to solve them together.
UJAMAA (OO JAH MAH) COOPERATIVE ECONOMICS - To build and maintain our own businesses together and profit from them together.
NIA (NEE YA) PURPOSE - To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community and to restore our people to our traditional greatness.
KUUMBA (KOO OOM BAH) CREATIVITY - To always do as much as we can in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than when we inherited it.
IMANI (EE MAH NEE) FAITH - To believe with all our hearts in our Creator, our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.
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